Talk:State bureau of investigation

Globalize
This article primarily describes bureaus in the US with only a sentence for German bureaus. Please add info about bureaus in other countries. – Temporal User (Talk) 08:32, 17 November 2011 (UTC)


 * What other countries even use the term "State bureau of investigation"? (Germany uses a German word, Landeskriminalamt, not an English phrase.) I'm not saying they don't exist, but if we don't have articles on the those topics, there's no need to "globalize" this article, or move it to another title. - BilCat (talk) 17:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

State bureau of investigation → State Bureau of Investigation – This article was originally at "State Bureau of Investigation". It is used in the US as a proper name, and this title would help to alliviate the continual efforts to tag the article with globalize tage, even though there are no other articles about state-level bureaus of investigation on WP, save for the German term.. - BilCat (talk) 18:33, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The term is used in this article primarily as a normal noun phrase. The fact that it can be converted for use to refer to a specific state bureau of investigation is unsurprising, and immaterial. Compare "university", but "the University" when in the context a particular university is referred to, and capitalisation is used to make this clearer. Promiscuous use of capitals obscures and disables such discriminating use. N oetica Tea? 01:59, 24 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose – a book search verifies that "a state bureau of investigation" is quite common, though for specific states you have capitals. Let's not over-capitalize.  Dicklyon (talk) 04:15, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Ok Faithbostick 7 (talk) 10:51, 28 May 2022 (UTC)